Signs of Power: The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast

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Jon L. Gibson, Philip J. Carr
University of Alabama Press, 11 mag 2004 - 383 pagine

Traces the sources of power and large-scale organization of prehistoric peoples among Archaic societies.

By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this book explores the sources of power and organization among Archaic societies. It investigates the origins of these technologies and their effects on long-term (evolutionary) and short-term (historical) change.

The characteristics of first origins in social complexity belong to 5,000- to 6,000-year-old Archaic groups who inhabited the southeastern United States. In Signs of Power, regional specialists identify the conditions, causes, and consequences that define organization and social complexity in societies. Often termed "big mound power," these considerations include the role of demography, kinship, and ecology in sociocultural change; the meaning of geometry and design in sacred groupings; the degree of advancement in stone tool technologies; and differentials in shell ring sizes that reflect social inequality.

 

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1 Big Mounds Big Rings Big Power
1
2 Late Archaic FisherForagers in the Apalachicola Lower Chattahoochee Valley Northwest Florida South GeorgiaAlabama
10
3 Measuring Shell Rings for Social Inequality
26
4 RegionalScale Interaction Networks and the Emergence of Cultural Complexity along the Northern Margins of the Southeast
71
5 The Green River in Comparison to the Lower Mississippi Valley during the Archaic
86
6 Cultural Complexity in the Middle Archaic of Mississippi
97
7 The Burkett Site 23MI20
114
8 Poverty Point ChippedStone Tool Raw Materials
129
11 Crossing the Symbolic Rubicon in the Southeast
214
12 Explaining Sociopolitical Complexity in the Foraging Adaptations of the Southeastern United States
234
13 The Power of Beneficent Obligation in First Mound Building Societies
254
14 Archaic Mounds and the Archaeology of Southeastern Tribal Societies
270
15 Old Mounds Ancient HunterGatherers and Modern Archaeologists
300
References Cited
317
Contributors
365
Index
369

9 Are We Fixing to Make the Same Mistake Again?
146
10 Surrounding the Sacred
162
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TitoloSigns of Power: The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast
Book collections on Project MUSE
Signs of Power: The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast, Philip J. Carr
CuratoriJon L. Gibson, Philip J. Carr
Edizioneillustrata
EditoreUniversity of Alabama Press, 2004
ISBN0817350853, 9780817350857
Lunghezza383 pagine
  
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